Sean Sungho Kim

Sean Sungho Kim is a Korean-American painter whose work is driven by opposing forces—chaos and freedom, beauty and destruction, nature and war. His paintings move through states of conflict and tension, where moments of openness begin to emerge.

Built through thick impasto and raw, unrestrained color, his surfaces register as sites of intensity and liberation. Abstracted landscapes—forests, oceans, fields and scorched terrains—appear throughout the work, suspended between natural beauty and psychological collapse. The paintings navigate suffering across human, ecological and ethereal realms, often evoking environments caught in states of unrest, transformation or decay.

Through these fractured and unstable spaces, the work reflects contemporary anxieties surrounding climate instability, violence and humanity's relationship to the Earth. The paintings ask how we experience conflict, how transformation emerges from rupture, and what it means to move beyond psychological, self inflicted states of confinement.

Lab Sevilla - Sevilla, Spain